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Coover, Robert
(1932-2024) US author who established a considerable reputation with his novels, in which Fabulation and political scatology mix fruitfully. His work could be seen to represent a Postmodernist intensification of the same milieu excoriated by Richard Condon; at times both authors seem to be describing a nightmare dream of orgy-choked life in the Late Roman Empire (see ...
Rose Red
Short film (1994). BFI Production, Channel 4, Konnick Films. Directed by Simon Pummell. Written by Simon Ings and Simon Pummell. Cast includes Jennifer Calvert, Carolyn Choa, Simon Henshall and Sian Thomas. Colour. 19 minutes. / Detective Thomas Shaw (Henshall) has a recurring dream in which he pulls a woman from the sea, but then commits a violent act against her. In his waking life, he is called into a laboratory to investigate the theft of vials of ...
Moore, Gertrude L
(1886-1981) UK author, mother of Patrick Moore, whose work of sf interest is restricted to Mrs Moore in Space (graph 1974), a picture book for adults comprising a tour of the Solar System and beyond, in the course of which a "bogie" meets a wide range of Extraterrestrials, amicably. [JC]
Rock, Pam
Joint pseudonym of a writing team comprising Barbara Andrews (? - ) and Pamela S Hanson (? - ), Hanson being Andrews's daughter; they also write nonfantastic romantic fiction as by Jennifer Drew, Pam Andrews Hanson, Evangeline Kelley. As Rock they are responsible for the romantic Planetary Romance Moon sequence beginning with Moon of Desire (1993), set on a ...
Zubrin, Robert
(1952- ) US aerospace engineer and author who in his nonfiction has been a strong advocate of the exploration and exploitation of Mars, as articulated in The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must (1996; rev 2011) with Richard Wagner and other texts, all advocating the "Mars Direct" programme, which describes the use of available Technology to move toward the ultimate ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...